UEFA match fixing?


UEFA boss Platini has some investigating to do

Just now, UEFA are investigating several matches in the Champions League and UEFA Cup for signs of match fixing. The story goes that several teams from Eastern Europe would rather lose their matches by a big score and earn big money than lose fairly and not earn a penny. It's quite understandable...

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Forsberg tries again


Peter Forsberg (right) at the Avalanche in 1997

Well, at least there was one week without any news on the Phoeninx Coyotes.

After missing the pre-season training camp, it was assumed (at least officially) that trainer Wayne Gretzky would join the team in good time before the start of the season. Now the club has realized what the rest of us expected; Gretzky has resigned from the troubled club. The new coach will be ex-Dallas Star...

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Moving the goal post?

An unusual occurrence has shaken up the Swedish footballing scene after last night's match between Örebro IK and IFK Göteborg in the Allsvenskan. Watch the above video and you'll see; this would never have happened with Nordic Sport goal frames as they are braced well with a system of stays. For the Swedish-challenged among you: after 20 minutes of the match, the referee...

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Skellefteå Kommun förenklar upphandlingar

Vi har länge drivit frågan ang. hur krångliga offentliga Kommunupphandlingar sätter krokben för mindre företag att bli accepterade som leverantörer till kommunerna i Sverige.
Vi är idag väldigt glada att se att Skellefteå Kommun går i bräschen för att förenkla och förbättra detta. Det kommer i förlängningen att göra inköpsavdelningens arbete lättare och mindre tidskrävande, det kommer även att innebära ett större utbud och fler valmöjligheter när det gäller produkter och tjänster som kommunerna ska...
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Assistant's assistant?

The group stages of the Champions League and the Europa League started last week without too much of a fuss. Perhaps the most controversial element was the use of five on-field officials in the Europa League. This experiment is said to be the brainchild of UEFA President Michel Platini, favouring the extra officials over the use of video replays, which, in his opinion, create lengthy delays in the game. The first night of the experiment must have been a...

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New season

With the ice-hockey season getting under way here in Europe and the NHL start imminent, I thought it would be easy to find something to write about but the first week for ages that the Phoenix Coyotes sale hasn't made headlines proved to be light on other news.

Last season's losing finalists, Detroit Red Wings, have also lost a few players. All in all, they will have to be without players that answered for 88 goals and 99 assists of...

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Möt oss i Jönköping

Möt oss på Park & Golf Elmia mässan i veckan. Vi kommer vara i Hall B, monter nr B02:26.
Vi visar gärna våra produkter, svarar på dina frågor. Kom förbi och ta en kopp kaffe med oss.
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Big spenders

Of the summer's big spenders it was Manchester City in the English Premier League who was tested first. A score of 4-2 against Arsenal shows that Manchester's "other team" will be there or thereabouts come the end of the season. They may not reach the summit this season but are bound for their best season in the Premier League. In Spain, Real Madrid had no problem with bottom-placed Espanyol, winning 3-0 away but will have to wait several weeks for a real...

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Coyote getting ugly

With the KHL rapidly growing to the heights of the North American NHL, Hockey Europe was formed not long ago to safeguard the interests of the top professional leagues in the rest of Europe. This new union, representing the leagues in the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland, recently chose a new General Manager in Sweden's Peter Gudmundsson, replacing Finn Jukka-Pekka Vuorinen, to lead Hockey Europe in its...

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Women's focus

 

While trawling the web for news other than the latest on the Coyotes' auction (see below), I spotted this piece on the iihf.com website, where I normally go to get news anyway. The site is a mine of information, not just NHL and other professional leagues around the world but also the minor nations and, especially, women's ice hockey.

The piece I was referring to is about a minor nation, in the women's world, making a strong raid into the elite. Slovakia has always...

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England v Germany final

The Women's Euros are coming to a close. First to reach the finals was England who won their semi-final against the Netherlands 2-1 after extra time. Beforehand, the match was deemed to be an easy game for England, but the Netherlands fought to the end. Their equalizer came just three minutes after England's 1-0 and they were only four minutes from a penalty shoot out when England's Jill Scott headed the winning goal after watching th...

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Elmia Park & Golf mässan

Elmia Park & Golf har arrangerats nio gånger sedan 1991. Man kan utan överdrift kalla Elmia Park & Golf för en institution i branschen. I år hålls mässan mellan den 22-24 september 2009.

Här möts utställare och besökare kring de senaste nyheterna både inomhus och utomhus. Vi på Nordic Sport har valt att ställa ut på mässan. Ni kan möta oss, ställa frågor och se våra produkter.

Vi har 100 inbjudningskort som vi tänker dela ut till alla som vill ha ett. Slå oss en signal eller maila oss, så skickar vi ett eller flera...

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